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Issues that might be intended or unintended.

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Ensign
Dec 31, 2012
30
First issue I've noticed is the negative threat passives seem completely worthless. I have a musketeer and swashbuckler and they don't seem to do anything. Twelve fights with amber horde with at least one crossbowman they always go for my character despite being 50 and having extra negative threat via musketeer and swashbuckler training and acting passively without attacking. It could be the mobs but I've had this happen with samoorai archers but haven't gone back to check them ten times in a row (three fights I can only take so much).

Second issue are the inoshishi bandits (pigs with sticks like ju hao). They block just about everything every single time. Ju hao for example despite being level 53 and maxed out gets blocked by these EVERY single time twice in a row per round due to second chance. These mobs are broken or point to how detrimental the current way the companion system works is. I've had the top two rows lined with musketeers besides lucy (she's a beast what can I say) and I still get all melee which happened with these mobs. I decided to pop ju hao to first mate and fight these guys over and over about eleven times and ended up with my melee companions over half the time being all melee (five times). Ju hao was blocked in every fight every round even though he's level 53 and maxed and should have slightly better stats than the same bandits.

Third issue are the lack options for musketeers specifically 45+. The itemization seems poor post 45+ for musketeers that want to maximize damage. Crown shop gear gives will as a secondary which seems fine if someone wants to go witch or privateer but what about swashbuckler? Logically swashbuckler would be a popular choice considering the shared main stat of agility. Why isn't the set in the shop allocated for +damage instead of will and why is accuracy put on everything? The stat although nice is hardly needed in these large amounts due to the plethora of skills the class attains.The only recourse one has as a musketeer is to find the one or two things that might not have accuracy on them and subpar amounts of agility and +damage. The fact that musketeers can use the shooty/stabby/slashy/smashy weapons just like swashbucklers makes this even more of a head scratcher. Musketeers get horrible passives where the large amount of accuracy is even needed. The most used one (quick draw) points back to the problem with the threat passives. High accuracy would be necessary or wanted if we had overwatch and burst fire but that isn't the case.

Last and final issue is the fact that nautical battles seem to be tacked on and not a full fledged feature or play style with the game. The game interests people initially due to the pirate theme and flying ship battles emphasized in your own commercial. It feels hollow and most of the players ignore this aspect until it's made absolutely necessary. Please improve this.

Ensign
Dec 31, 2012
30
I wanted to add that it seems odd that a quest to kill four or eight things only to get three out of four even though you might fight four seems disingenuous and arbitrary. Kill these guys get four of these things it always ends up shorting you an item so instead you might have to do two battles or three battles instead of one or two. Why would you do this? Why would you do this to players? They need to be a little more honest in a sense with what your goal is. This happens with all quests from the start of the game.

I've been playing MMO's since 2001 with daoc and eq. Make the battles and drop represent what is actually happening and change the quests accordingly. I have to fight three sets of four to hit my twelve mark etc.

Ensign
Jun 26, 2012
7
Baconnaise on Jan 29, 2013 wrote:
I wanted to add that it seems odd that a quest to kill four or eight things only to get three out of four even though you might fight four seems disingenuous and arbitrary. Kill these guys get four of these things it always ends up shorting you an item so instead you might have to do two battles or three battles instead of one or two. Why would you do this? Why would you do this to players? They need to be a little more honest in a sense with what your goal is. This happens with all quests from the start of the game.

I've been playing MMO's since 2001 with daoc and eq. Make the battles and drop represent what is actually happening and change the quests accordingly. I have to fight three sets of four to hit my twelve mark etc.
This is the reason my niece stopped trying to complete quests. She'd have to sink/board over a dozen ships to acquire 4 or 6 needed items. She has pretty well given up and when she does log her character on, a level 28 Swashbuckler, she spends her time in Santo Pollo where she collects the gold from the 3 treasure chests that appear there and does the cantina backroom battle. I feel it won't be long until I terminate membership because of her lack of interest in the game. She also had the complaint that when first getting a quest, it was nearly impossible to complete it. The Totem Quest is an example. She was defeated 3 times in a row trying to get the first totem and has now completely given up on it.

Ensign
Dec 31, 2012
30
Bloodwynde on Jan 31, 2013 wrote:
This is the reason my niece stopped trying to complete quests. She'd have to sink/board over a dozen ships to acquire 4 or 6 needed items. She has pretty well given up and when she does log her character on, a level 28 Swashbuckler, she spends her time in Santo Pollo where she collects the gold from the 3 treasure chests that appear there and does the cantina backroom battle. I feel it won't be long until I terminate membership because of her lack of interest in the game. She also had the complaint that when first getting a quest, it was nearly impossible to complete it. The Totem Quest is an example. She was defeated 3 times in a row trying to get the first totem and has now completely given up on it.
That's a problem for me as well in my household since the kids aren't used to these percentage based drops that have been common in MMO's for years. I presume you're speaking about a quest like collect water from or the key from these mobs and it's sort of random how many battles it takes to get it. It might be one it might be five. It's been a staple in MMO's for ages and when the children encounter them it does sour the attitude on these games for them. My twelve year old tried playing AION (played it when it was first released) when it went free to play and even after my warning that it was a korean grinder she still made the attempt and failed. I leveled a spiritmaster and chanter to cap a couple months post release. I've played lineage and lineage 2 as well as other korean grinders coupled with daoc and eq it's what I'm specifically used to. The latest game they're into is dragon saga or dragonica depending on the region (usa/eu). It's more of an action side scrolling combat mmo that has a huge real money store yet they still play and actually leveled up. Friends maybe I don't know. Wizards they gave up on due to how long things took do.

I think the younger children mine for example are wired differently and have grown up with a different set of games so using mechanics or ideas that someone like me might be used to won't work with them. This game does have some characteristics that are considered draconian or old school which might be part of the problem with retention of the younger market. My children specifically always fall back into playing minecraft and roblox (roblox is a horrible all around imo) but that's my experience.